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Re:How much health insurers pay for almost everything is abo... by db48x on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:29PM (#31962061)
I was thinking more in terms of procedures. Look for waiting lists, those are the procedures where the government–chosen price is too low. Meanwhile more profitable procedures will not have a waiting list.

Medicines are more complicated because the manufacturer will probably have patents that grant them a manufacturing monopoly, meaning they can always set the price to whatever they want anyway. Not to mention that a multinational can afford to make less in some countries as long as on average they make enough to continue doing research. If Germany somehow sets a price that is egregiously low, the manufacturer can simply sell their medicine elsewhere instead.

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